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The Inheritance Cycle books in order

The 4 books of The Inheritance Cycle in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 2,880 pages.

Books in order
4
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
2,880
sum of medians, 4 books
Reading time
51h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Eragon
    12 editions
    522 pages
    9 h 13 min
  2. 2
    Eldest
    7 editions
    704 pages
    12 h 25 min
  3. 3
    Brisingr
    6 editions
    774 pages
    13 h 38 min
  4. 4
    Inheritance
    6 editions
    880 pages
    15 h 31 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Eragon5222. Eldest7043. Brisingr7734. Inheritance880
1. Eragon5222. Eldest7043. Brisingr7734. Inheritance880
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 2,880 pages for the 4 books with page data.

Reading time
50 h 46 min
At 30 min a day
102 days
At 1 hour a day
51 days
Order follows the series number recorded on Wikidata. Novellas numbered with decimals (for example 2.5) sit between the main books.

Data: Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors); Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).